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Rating:  - Microsoft 2007 Office a Total Diaster!!!
I have been MS office user for 15 years. I am totally shocked when I see the MS office 2007 version. Excel looks and feel make me dazy by looking at it. It took me 5 mintues to find search icon, and I need extra click to do almost everything. It has extra icons all over the spreadsheet, but the useage of these icons are 1-5% of time. It added at least 30% of my time to get any work done. This is totally not acceptable.
Outlook the same way. the microsoft company is heading a totally wrong direction. I simply don't understand the new version. I am praying that I can stick to older version for a long time.
Rating:  - Great product
This is a definite improvement over Microsoft Office 2003. It has alot of very nice additional features. It works with Office 2003 if you are interacting with people who have Office 03. I would highly recommend it.
Rating: - Office 2007
I did not get an opportunity to use this product, as the seller sent me an OEM version, clearly marked "only to be sold with a new PC". This was a violation of the EULA, and Minnesota law.
Rating: - The Where's Waldo Software "Upgrade"
I have been using Microsoft office products since the dark ages of DOS. Until 3 weeks ago, I was an expert on Word and Access and pretty darn good on Excel. My IT guy would call me with questions when he had a customer question he couldn't answer.
Three weeks ago, I got MS-Office-Professional 2007 and it felt like I had never used a computer before. The interface is completely changed and the Help section is so jumbled so that a simple question takes quite a while to answer. (Although that stupid talking paperclip is gone-- thank you!)
My first week on Office-2007 was not productive.
I'm getting better. While the ribbon setup is not intuitive to me, the Master command line at the upper-left of the screen is so flexible that I can place and remove commands/macros quickly and with ease. I'm using that function a lot until I memorize the locations of my favorite features.
Most of the keyboard shortcuts (CTRL-A - select all) commands are still in place and I use those a lot. So, that's not a problem to me.
Many of the old keyboard commands (ALT E E - Find/Replace) still exist in some places. You will see a banner "2003 command compatibility" or something like that when you use them. That has also been helpful.
One of my biggest gripes is that they eliminated AUTOTEXT. I had hundreds of AUTOTEXT phrases/paragraphs/documents setup and they still exist, if I want to open a menu, scroll thru them, find the right one, and choose it to drop into my document-- instead of typing 5-6 keystrokes and hitting ENTER. This is a huge loss to me personally because I had over 100 town/city address lines built in. I didn't have to memorize zipcodes... just AUTOTEXT the info. There were a lot of others, but those zipcodes are the ones I really miss. I daresay that I will create macros on many of these items in the future. I have also gone back to the old-fashioned "text fragment on the desktop" that I can drop in to documents quickly. After three weeks, I have almost stopped typing MIC-ENTER for my boss' signature line (his name is Michaeal F. xxxx, plus title).
I have had several ACCESS databases where forms/reports are glitchy and had to be repaired after converting. Many of my reports with non-standard page layout (i.e., legal size paper, landscape orientation) have had to have the layout re-entered and saved before they behave properly when accessed. This has been an annoyance-- especially when the boss is standing there waiting for a document he's used to getting instantly that has to be re-formatted now. At this time, I am going thru my 20-25 databases and checking every form function and report layout during spare time. It's wasting a lot of time, but is necessary so that I don't get stopped in my tracks at a critical moment by a report broken by the conversion.
I am experiencing slow-working software and crashes. But, I work for a non-profit company and our network includes many different systems on every workstation and I'm guessing that it wouldn't be a problem if all of us had switched to 2007 at one time. But, I was lucky to get a new computer at all-- let alone putting new workstations on the entire system.
I have not seen any improvement in design with my switch to Office 2007. It's possible that there are programming improvements that I cannot see, but the front-end is radically different, but not improved in any real way. The old front-end worked just as well.
I have experienced more post-conversion glitches with this switch than any other in my 20+ years of using computers in an office setting. Even our switch from WordPerfect to Word was easier. Of course, in the 1980s, when we switched from WordPerfect, we didn't have the programming features we have now-- AUTOTEXT, MACROS, etc.-- and that's where the glitches are occurring.
It's my belief that the harder you work your computer, the more of a shock this transision will be. However, if you understand computers and how to make them work hard for you, you'll figure it out pretty quickly.
My recommendation-- you're going to have to switch at some point. It's just the nature of software development. We have to use the upgrades. Otherwise, we'd all still be typing c:word to open our word processors. Find a period of time that you have low stress (or as low stress as possible in your life) and some extra time in your schedule. Expect a period of time to find out that printing a label is in the "mailing" ribbon.
Rating: - excellent
I bought this version of MS Office Professional from Amazon because it was the best price I found anywhere. It arrived quickly and in perfect condition. I am enjoying some of the new features and would recommend it highly.
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